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by o_nate 8y ago
If it's taught us nothing else, I'm grateful for the whole bitcoin mania for teaching us some humility about computer security. It seems the consensus is forming that a computer that's connected to the network is pretty much
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Morgan Knutson on His Google+ Experience(mobile.twitter.com)
1 points by o_nate 8y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 8y ago
I had the same initial reaction, but the dictionary supports the idea that the everyday usage of sort means to group by category, not to order. I've probably just been coding too long as well.
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by o_nate 8y ago
The NYC commuter tax was repealed in 1999. You still have to pay NY state tax obviously.
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Frank Heart, Who Linked Computers Before the Internet, Dies at 89(nytimes.com)
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by o_nate 8y ago
When I was just starting out as a wet-behind-the-ears developer, an older, grizzled dev gave me invaluable advice for estimating: take your best guess of how long something will take and double it, that's what you tell the users. That
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by o_nate 8y ago
It's kind of neat to see that something like that can be done in Excel, but as usual, my reaction to anything sufficiently complex being coded in Excel is the same: Please God, not me.
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On Boredom (1975)(nybooks.com)
1 points by o_nate 8y ago|0 comments
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Tricky Business of Measuring Consciousness(wired.com)
3 points by o_nate 9y ago|0 comments
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The Consciousness Deniers(nybooks.com)
36 points by o_nate 9y ago|65 comments
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One smart guy’s frank take on working in some of the major tech companies(marginalrevolution.com)
15 points by o_nate 9y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 9y ago
Given her level of tech-savviness, that's not as easy as it sounds. Also, it seems more secure to have her just use the app - less possibility of phishing attempts and the like. She already bought a new iPad anyway.
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by o_nate 9y ago
My mother-in-law is in the same boat. She is not a demanding user. She basically uses her iPad for 3 things: buying things on Amazon, looking at pictures of her grandson on Facebook, and checking her stocks with the Fidelity app. Well, the
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What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death(nytimes.com)
197 points by o_nate 9y ago|282 comments
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by o_nate 9y ago
That's what I thought this article would be about when I saw the title. Those are also a pet peeve of mine. If it doesn't track some real measure of progress, just show a spinning hourglass or something to indicate busyness.
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by o_nate 9y ago
It would be interesting to read about how he came up with that specific checksum algorithm. Trial and error?
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by o_nate 9y ago
I imagine it's just a coincidence that Steve Yegge recently left Google, joined Go-Jek competitor Grab, and posted a disparaging take on Google's slowing rate of innovation, but it's funny to imagine this as Google's rev
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by o_nate 9y ago
Some book recommendations here: http://www.stat.unc.edu/faculty/cji/890-11/Goldman-Sachs-Sug...
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by o_nate 9y ago
This article made it easier for me to understand how various independent researchers could have arrived at the same discovery around the same time. It seems like Fogh was informally pushing the idea in private discussions, and then after Ho
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by o_nate 9y ago
This piece raises a couple of interesting questions: 1) Would it be illegal for a mining pool to attack another crypto-currency in this manner? and 2) Could this really be accomplished without severely impacting the value of all crypto-cu
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‘It Can’t Be True’ – Inside the Semiconductor Industry’s Meltdown(bloomberg.com)
144 points by o_nate 9y ago|63 comments
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by o_nate 9y ago
This handy guide lays out some ways that the legislators in their wisdom have sought to curb this understandable impulse. E.g. the allowable deduction is proportional to regular wages paid by the pass-thru business. So you can only take ded
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by o_nate 9y ago
This is actually a great idea. Worthy of a post of its own.
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by o_nate 9y ago
The problem is if you tax both the land & the buildings, you are discouraging development on the land. A pure land tax avoids that problem. It may be a subtle difference but if you are looking to increase land tax rates above current le
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Rescuing Economics from Neoliberalism(bostonreview.net)
3 points by o_nate 9y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 9y ago
Yeah, my favorite was the animated GIF of a flying Jeff Bezos inside a cardboard box.
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How Did the Romans Make Concrete That Lasts Longer Than Modern Concrete?(openculture.com)
1 points by o_nate 9y ago|3 comments
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by o_nate 9y ago
I'm on my second Zune, and when it finally dies, I'll probably buy another one, assuming I can get a cheap refurbished one online and the software still runs on the latest version of Windows. The build quality is good, the softwar
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In Colorado, opioid deaths fall following marijuana legalization(washingtonpost.com)
256 points by o_nate 9y ago|101 comments
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The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial(ribbonfarm.com)
3 points by o_nate 9y ago|0 comments

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